I am running Linux Mint 13 on a laptop which is connected to Internet via ethernet and is also configured as wifi hotspot through Mint's network manager. This used to work perfectly well for clients wishing to use my Internet connection.

However I screwed with dnsmasq and dhcp-server and now I am stuck...while clients can connect to the laptop hotspot, they are not able to get a suitable IP/DNS.

No clue where to start..

smallpond

11-20-2012 05:52 PM

DHCP is the protocol for handing out IP addresses. First see if the dhcp daemon is running:

Code:

ps -ef|grep dhcpd

If that's running, see if it is logging anything:

Code:

sudo grep dhcpd /var/log/messages

If is ok, it should be logging when it gives out leases. Something like: